Details on this package are located in Section 10.40.2, “Contents of E2fsprogs.”
The E2fsprogs package contains the utilities for handling the ext2 file system. It also supports the ext3 journaling file system.
This package cannot be cross-compiled for ppc64 on some common architectures. The following patch fixes this:
patch -Np1 -i ../e2fsprogs-1.39-cross-1.patch
Make sure the libraries get installed to /tools/lib64:
chmod -v 0755 configure
cp -v configure{,.orig}
sed -e "/libdir=.*\/lib/s@/lib@/lib64@g" configure.orig > configure
The E2fsprogs documentation recommends that the package be built in a subdirectory of the source tree:
mkdir -v build cd build
When cross-compiling configure cannot determine sizes and assumes short=2, int=4, long=4, long long=8. This is not correct for PowerPC64. Adjust the values with:
echo "ac_cv_sizeof_long=8" > config.cache
Prepare E2fsprogs for compilation:
CC="${CC} ${BUILD64}" ../configure --prefix=/tools \
--enable-elf-shlibs --disable-evms \
--build=${CLFS_HOST} --host=${CLFS_TARGET} --cache-file=config.cache
The meaning of the configure options:
This creates the shared libraries which some programs in this package use.
This disables the building of the Enterprise Volume Management System (EVMS) plugin. This plugin is not up-to-date with the latest EVMS internal interfaces and EVMS is not installed as part of a base CLFS system, so the plugin is not required. See the EVMS website at http://evms.sourceforge.net/ for more information regarding EVMS.
make CC="${CC} ${BUILD64}"
Install the binaries and documentation:
make DESTDIR=${CLFS} install
The meaning of the make option:
The Makefile for e2fsprogs hard-codes a path to the mke2fs.conf file, attempting to install it into ${DESTDIR}/etc, causing the installation to fail as it tries to write to /etc. The DESTDIR parameter prevents this.
Install the shared libraries:
make install-libs
Create needed symlinks for a bootable system:
ln -sv /tools/sbin/{fsck.ext2,fsck.ext3,e2fsck} ${CLFS}/sbin
Details on this package are located in Section 10.40.2, “Contents of E2fsprogs.”